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Iconic literary food moments

This week, we’re barreling forward in time to contemporary literature and the year 1999 to recognise the book that to many proved the definitive and final word on the relationship between food and literature. Chocolat is so laden with food quotes it is difficult to pick just one, so we narrowed it down to three.
Joanne Harris’s Chocolat not only contains a slather of iconic literary food moments, it is the iconic literary food moment.